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| A land of deserts, dingoes and dickheads |
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Well, considering I spent the first 24 years of my life here, there’s a lot to choose from.
The time when I was dining in Parliament house and managed to flick rice over a large group of important politicians springs to mind. |
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You haven’t lived until you’ve lined up with the blokes at an Australian public toilet. There are no individual cubicles, just one long metal trough.
Efficient and classy. |
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| My home place. We have a famous poem at home:
I love a sunburned country
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains
So, if the idea of sunburn, drought or floods appeals to you, please visit Australia.
Oh, and I could be wrong. The words might be, “A land of sweeping planes,” indicating the large delays for cleaning on QANTAS flights. |
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Once you leave the cities, Australia is just a whole bunch of nothing. |
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Captain Kangaroo forgets to set his alarm clock. |
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20,090,437 (2005) |
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Canberra |
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The Australian Dollar
A$1 = 1 Australian Dollar (When my dad was a kid, he knew the value of a dollar) |
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1975 - 2001 |
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Everywhere except the West |
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1 Although most are likely to be dingoes |
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1 I can buy a beer in Australia for exactly the same price as a beer in Australia (unless I’m in Sydney) |
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